{"title":"Integrating Historic Preservation into Post-Disaster Recovery: The Role of the Main Street Program","authors":"Andrew Rumbach, Douglas R. Appler","doi":"10.1353/per.2019.a799472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/per.2019.a799472","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Historic preservation is an important part of community resilience to natural hazards. In the aftermath of disasters, however, preservationists sometimes struggle to find the resources or support necessary to repair or protect historic resources. Disaster-affected communities in the United States have used the Main Street Program to help guide their recovery efforts, with positive outcomes for historic preservation. In this paper we use an explanatory case study research design to analyze three communities that have used Main Street during post-disaster recovery: Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Waterbury, Vermont; and Lyons, Colorado. We find that the Main Street Program has helped preservationists overcome common barriers to recovery by (1) bringing together diverse stakeholders with an interest in historic resources; (2) leveraging the strengths of pre-disaster networks and relationships; and (3) linking the restoration and protection of historic resources to economic recovery and revitalization. The use of the Main Street Program is an example of a successful collaborative governance approach to disaster recovery, which has important implications for heritage professionals and urban planners globally. While limited in their breadth and areas of focus, these cases show that the Main Street Program has been a unique tool for post-disaster community recovery.","PeriodicalId":211364,"journal":{"name":"Preservation Education & Research","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133126730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking the Historical Significance of Modern Architecture: Lessons from the Local Landmarking of Shoreline Apartments, a Low-Income Housing Project in Buffalo","authors":"A. Krishna, K. Traynor, Joy Resor","doi":"10.1353/per.2019.a799477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/per.2019.a799477","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The designation of Modern architecture has been a contested process for several decades, particularly for low-income housing. Preservationists have often argued against any changes to, or demolition of, these kinds of sites because in most cases the buildings are associated with a well-known Modern architect or are emblematic of a particularly novel or groundbreaking use of form and/or material. That association often overrides history and public sentiment, particularly when the building or site has failed its primary function. This paper uses the case of Paul Rudolph's Shoreline Apartments in Buffalo, New York, to argue that landmark designation of Modern architecture, particularly for in-use housing projects, needs to take a holistic look at the project in its entirety, not just its architectural merit, design intent, or associations with a master architect. Ignoring all aspects of such properties can have huge implications for the field of historic preservation and how it is perceived among and within urban communities.","PeriodicalId":211364,"journal":{"name":"Preservation Education & Research","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128829269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructive Collaboration: Reframing Remembrance and Contextualization of Abstractive Ideas on a Historic Site","authors":"Siobhan Barry","doi":"10.5749/preseducrese.12.2020.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/preseducrese.12.2020.0048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The physical memorialization of the process of remembrance attempts to encompass a collective memory charged with questions of whose memory, or whose past is being represented (Selimovic 2013). Conflict is often seen in causal terms, through a narrative of “who did what to whom” or a chronology of war and peace. Yet to memorialize the conflict and sacrifice of a multitude at a historical distance creates enormous responsibility, making sacred the concept or purpose rather than the individual. Distance exercises an influence on how history is understood, and distance and detachment are elevated to a privileged position with respect to knowledge of the past (Salber Phillips 2013). This paper aims to redress the balance and explore how spatiality and memory construct a personal experience that reflects the time of conflict from a historical distance.","PeriodicalId":211364,"journal":{"name":"Preservation Education & Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124627611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remaking Small Post-Industrial Towns","authors":"Donald Carter","doi":"10.5749/preseducrese.13.2021.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/preseducrese.13.2021.0050","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Throughout the American industrial heartland, hundreds of small factory towns along rivers and railroad lines have essentially been abandoned. The factories that once employed thousands of workers closed forty years ago, resulting in vacant industrial and commercial buildings, contaminated soils, deteriorated housing stock, and population losses of more than 50 percent, particularly of young people and skilled workers. Tax bases are inadequate for basic government services such as police, fire, public health, education, and infrastructure. However, many large post-industrial cities both in the United States, such as Pittsburgh, and in Europe, such as Turin, Italy, have transformed themselves over the last forty years. Success stories from ten cities, five in the United States and five in Europe, are documented in the book I edited, Remaking Post-Industrial Cities: Lessons Learned from North America and Europe (Routledge 2016). In this article, I use the lessons learned from those ten cities to examine recent revitalization efforts in four small post-industrial river towns in the Pittsburgh region.","PeriodicalId":211364,"journal":{"name":"Preservation Education & Research","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126523478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Pedagogical Framework for Integrating Laser Scanning into Traditional Built Heritage Documentation Coursework","authors":"Sujin Kim, Morris Hylton","doi":"10.5749/preseducrese.12.2020.0071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/preseducrese.12.2020.0071","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study explores how historic preservation educators can effectively integrate 3D terrestrial laser scanning technology with traditional field survey methods as part of built heritage documentation coursework. Multi-phase, qualitative research was applied. With Phase 1, cross-analysis of interviews with historic preservation educators and digital documentation experts helps establish pedagogical objectives. An action research approach is then used during Phase 2 to examine two revisions to conventional curricula and assess which better helps achieve the objectives by comparing the deliverables and workflows of the two courses. The revised curriculum, where a digital-data-centered process was employed from the beginning, rather than treated as a supplement, enhanced the complementation of the digital and field tools to facilitate students' research and representation of the historic building. Based on this finding, Phase 3 includes the formulation of a theoretical framework, titled Integrated Virtual and Field Experience for Interacting with the Built Environment, with its four complementary tasks—virtual measurement, virtual experience, field measurement, and field experience—that historic preservation instructors can consider when organizing built heritage documentation pedagogy that integrates digital technologies such as laser scanning.","PeriodicalId":211364,"journal":{"name":"Preservation Education & Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124255650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preserving the Painful: Lessons on Agency, Preservation, and Dialogue in Acknowledging Canada's Indian Residential School Sites","authors":"Alexandra Kitson, Lisa Berglund","doi":"10.5749/preseducrese.12.2020.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/preseducrese.12.2020.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:For nearly 150 years, Canada's Residential School Program sought to forcibly place Indigenous youth in boarding schools that would strip them of their Indigenous cultural knowledge and assimilate them into settler society. The trauma induced by these acts of cultural violence is now being acknowledged by the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which contains Calls to Action for how these and other atrocities committed against Indigenous Peoples might be brought to light. Among these calls to action is the mandate to work with Indigenous Peoples to acknowledge the sites of the Residential School Program. However, there are few precedents for commemorating sites of trauma associated with forced social reform. Drawing on lessons from sites of state-sanctioned social reform forcibly carried out against marginalized communities at the Sean McDermott Laundry in Dublin, Ireland, and the Holy Cross Laundry in Brisbane, Bennett House in Perth, and the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Home in Kinchela, Australia, this paper demonstrates how attention can be paid to the agency and sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples in the best cases by acknowledging the diversity of survivor experiences. These projects point to the potential for preservation processes to be used as important avenues for difficult but necessary conversations regarding reconciliation and demonstrate instances where the process fell short of the objectives the TRC sets for the preservation of the Residential School sites.","PeriodicalId":211364,"journal":{"name":"Preservation Education & Research","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121372918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adapting Preservation: Lessons Learned from Challenges and Opportunities in Two Large-Scale Pittsburgh Projects","authors":"Raymond W. Gastil","doi":"10.5749/preseducrese.13.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/preseducrese.13.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article focuses on the adaptive reuse of two industrial-era structures in Pittsburgh, reviewing the resulting designs and the process to better understand transformative adaptive reuse projects in the conceptual and regulatory context of historic preservation's policy and practice. The 1,200-foot-long Mill 19 at Hazelwood Green, a former steel industry site on the Monongahela River, inserts new offices and labs into a massive steel frame built in 1943, the first project on a 179-acre site planned for a very high level of environmental performance. The 1920s Produce Terminal, formally known as the Pennsylvania Railroad Fruit and Auction Building, is a 1,500-foot-long structure at the historic core of a center for wholesale distribution. After more than a decade of planning, debates, and consultation, the Terminal, located in the National Register–certified Strip Historical District, has been recast as a center for retail, restaurants, and commercial use. While distinct in their settings, relationship to their historic structures, and design development process, the mill and the terminal pose issues for balancing urbanism and preservation, potentially informing the development of improved models for an expanded, adaptive management response to respecting history while meeting sustainable urbanism imperatives for buildings and cities and regions.","PeriodicalId":211364,"journal":{"name":"Preservation Education & Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122488097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating Virtual Models with Digital Photogrammetry: Pertev Paşa Mosque (İzmit, Turkey)","authors":"Jonathan C. Spodek, Christopher K. Harrison","doi":"10.5749/preseducrese.12.2020.0096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/preseducrese.12.2020.0096","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The use of photogrammetry as a tool to aid in the documentation of cultural heritage sites has a long history in creating scalable documents from 2D photographs. Recent advances in technology paired with the greater accessibility of photogrammetric software present ever-growing opportunities to document heritage sites. Documentation can be achieved with minimal training, a consumer-grade camera, and available software. Software applications manage almost the entire initial photogrammetric process, including image registration, object matching, photo-stitching, 3D mesh generation, and rendering. Digital photogrammetry starts with the on-site capture of digital photographs. Photographs are collected for processing by automated modeling software. Based on two algorithms, structure from motion (SfM) and multi-view stereo (MVS), the software analyzes the photographic images to create a 3D polygonal mesh with photorealistic texture maps. These files can then be post-processed and the models refined using 3D surface modeling software to create a final virtual model. Digital photogrammetry using a digital single lens reflex camera and cloud-based processing software can make digital documentation more applicable to historic building documentation. This article presents a straightforward approach to using digital photogrammetry to document heritage sites located in remote regions of the world, where access and digital applications may be limited.","PeriodicalId":211364,"journal":{"name":"Preservation Education & Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125973449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A More Inclusive Civil War Interpretation in Cape Girardeau, Missouri's Public Square: A Case Study","authors":"S. Hoffman","doi":"10.5749/preseducrese.12.2020.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/preseducrese.12.2020.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The debate over the place of Confederate memorials in the public sphere became much more heated in the aftermath of racist attacks in Charleston, South Carolina, and Charlottesville, Virginia. Some communities decided to remove or relocate Confederate memorials, often in the face of strong protests. Other communities chose to preserve these memorials in place and enacted state laws to prohibit the removal of monuments. Some communities opted to provide additional interpretation to existing monuments or add new monuments to express new values of community and inclusion. Historians, public historians, and historic preservationists have an important role to play in helping communities navigate through these often conflicting alternatives. Using interviews, newspaper accounts, and archival sources, this case study examines Cape Girardeau, Missouri's journey to celebrate African-American contributions to the community and to confront and acknowledge its Confederate past and complicated Civil War-era history. By working together, community members, public historians, and historic preservationists can help bring about the understanding we need to develop if we are ever going to come to terms with the difficult histories found in all of our communities.","PeriodicalId":211364,"journal":{"name":"Preservation Education & Research","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128947696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}